Memorial by Alice Oswald

A brilliantly original new poem, which is also a translation of
Homer's Iliad, by a poet who is also a classicist. Oswald has
stripped away its narrative - the anger of Achilles, the story of
Helen - and attended to its atmospheres: the similes that bring so
much of the natural order into the poem, and the corresponding
litany of the war dead, each of whom lives and dies unforgettably
and unforgotten in the copious retrospect of Homer's glance.